“a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service *** Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.” (Andreessen also helped Elon by Twitter.) 10/24/24 … 1/

Today i'm blasting to "Are we a Warrior" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3D...

really some great investigative journalist here 👇👏

guns, cash and US aid - israel's support for gaza militia via @news.sky.com news.sky.com/story/guns-c...

it's all Moldova this weekend and the massive targeting with FIMI (influence ops)

Here you go, Internet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims. Varsha Bansal explores how misinformation is laundered by AI during breaking news, and the challenges of moderating and regulating AI systems.

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is it just me or has it become impossible to know what's actually true online? how do we solve this?

This is how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.

Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University.

Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

this 👇

“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.” san.com/cc/not-so-s...

Israel operated various fake Twitter, Telegram and websites to recruit Iranians to rise against their gov. #influence www.leefang.com/p/digital-fr...

thank you 🙏

Geography matters hugely in geopolitics—Russia is almost entirely separated from the global south by a buffer of former Soviet states, Sarang Shidore writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/g...

Donald Trump is reportedly planning to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War. @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues that the move is a stunt that could wind up embarrassing the Pentagon and costing millions. Read more: theatln.tc/r1lU6FWz

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

great investigation from ZdG re: Russia's troll farms in Moldova - www.zdg.md/investigatii...

what's going on in germany www.bbc.com/news/article...

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.

liars dividend ..

The Kant Car

This is an OK piece on how drones could potentially be used for terrorism in the U.S….but the example case cited here, in which Neo-Nazi Skyler Philippi plotted to blow up an energy facility with a drone in 2024, has been, IMO, overblown as an example of a drone terrorism near-miss:

tonight "lee perry" in dub www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9R...

vibe coding music -- how did we get here 🤔

80% of strikes in the russia/ukraine war are now done with drones, per @skynews. this changes everything about how war is fought going forward.

got a 40'' monitor, just used for a week and now going back to 27'' - honestly my productivity went down as everything is on the screen and makes me feel like i have to address them all.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

good citizens (journos + activists) in authoritarian states use vpns to protect themselves from man-in-middle attacks during elections. so this conversation can go in different directions 👇

the most effective disinformation feeds into something that society already believes in #thoughts

it just doesn't feel normal seeing soldiers at the metro stations in d.c. 😐 - their body languages also show that they are so bored.

i've not written any #rstats script in a while - why? apparently the quick little summaries i used to use #rstats for can be done in claude ai in secs. my prompts also make sure i get ggplot style visualizations 📈

a really smart phishing campaign pretending to have come from google failed message send to past @google.com email that owned 12+ years ago.

a great use of #osint - tracking toyota land cruiser from rsf camp deep in libyan desert to sudan www.youtube.com/watch?v=umaF...

lol mastodon.social/@aboutsignal...

as someone who has lived under an authoritarian regime, I can tell you that just the talk of deploying the national guard in d.c. carries all the familiar warning signs of how these things begin.

"sufferer's time" by the heptones #roots www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkL...

i'll be starting a blog, talking about some of my thoughts around ai, societal issues and disinformation threats.

my best prompt on llms is 'explain this like i'm 9 years old'.. i'm learning so many things that didn't make sense to me 10 year ago.

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my good friend archive.is is down. 🙃

just saying fb systems finally getting better at catching fake accounts.. efforts to create sockpuppets for personal research many times being flagged by their systems. 👏

the thing about llms usage (for anything) - is that if you're really good at any field; it will be make you 10x times better..

not sure why google would put "upload image from ai" way above the "upload image from computer" on google docs in the menu. super annoying!

not sure d.c will recover from all these hits from the past 6 months from usaid, tech to state dept. 🤔

with vibe coding.. programming is never going to be the same again. 🙃

Ever wonder "how can someone believe THAT?" My book "FALSE: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford University Press, 2025) explains why. Please give it a read, spread the word, and write a review! 🙏 drjoepierre.com/index.php/fa...

One of Anthropic's new security measures is a bandwidth limit on data egress from the environment that contains the model weights. The idea to slow down any exfiltration attempt long enough for the team to detect and intercept it! www.anthropic.com/news/activa...